One of the shortest signed roads in the State of Florida, State Road 401 is a four lane highway providing access to the south gate of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station near Cape Canaveral. Its southern terminus is a trumpet interchange with the Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway (formerly the Bee Line Expressway) and SR A1A. While the highway continues beyond the station gate (as Samuel E. Phillips Parkway) to the launch pads of the Kennedy Space Center, the state designation no longer does, for civilians and most military personnel not assigned to the station are generally not permitted beyond the gate. Image File history File links Florida_401. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Bumper V-2 was the first missile launched at Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. ... Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida, USA. The population was 8,829 at the 2000 census. ... High-capacity freeway interchange in Los Angeles, California. ... State Road 528 (SR 528), also known as the Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway or simply the Beachline, and sometimes by its former name, the Martin Andersen Bee Line Expressway, is a state highway in the U.S. state of Florida. ... Most of Florida State Road A1A runs along the Atlantic Ocean, with sections from Key West at the southern tip of Florida, to Fernandina Beach, just south of Georgia. ... The launch pad refers to the facilities where rockets or spacecrafts liftoff. ... Merritt Island and Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) at Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. ... In times of armed conflict a civilian is any person who is not a combatant. ...

Before the construction of the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral AFS, the current SR 401 was a segment of SR A1A that extended from Fort Pierce to Playalinda Beach; afterwards, but before the completion of the Bee Line, SR A1A continued northward along Atlantic Avenue into Cape Canaveral, then turning westward onto George King Boulevard and then northward onto (present-day) Samuel E. Phillips Parkway and ending at the station's gate. When the Bee Line's eastern extension was opened to traffic in 1967, SR A1A was shifted over to Astronaut Boulevard and the new toll road, and the former alignment was given the SR 401 designation (with SR 401 having its northern terminus at an intersection with SR 405 and the then-SR 402 in Cape Canaveral AFS). The section of SR 401 passing through the City of Cape Canaveral eventually lost its route signs and designation (becoming Brevard County Road 401 in the process), resulting in the current, much-shortened configuration of SR 401. Fort Pierce is a city in St. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Locally known as South Street, Columbia Boulevard, and the NASA Causeway, State Road 405 is a street making a sweeping arc in Titusville, Florida and providing a major access route for the Kennedy Space Center on nearby Merritt Island. ... Originally designated Florida State Road 402, Brevard County Road 402 connects the Kennedy Space Center launch complex with Playalinda Beach on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and Titusville on the mainland of Florida. ...